Hello,

I played the game the last weeks and I am at the end of year 6 now. The game is still enjoyable.
The game can use over 3 gig of ram at some point, but it is good to see that the ram size will decrease again after some time for some.

First talk about the population grow:

• Year 1, 7 starting settlers
• Year 2, 6 new settlers (13 total)
• Year 3, 9 new settlers (22 total)
• Year 4, 9 new settlers (31 total)
• Year 5, 12 new settlers (43 total)
• Year 6, 17 new settlers (60 total)

Oké, lets talk about food production. Wheat, potato and carrot will grow in the winter, tomato and corn don't. So you have to harvest tomato and corn before the winter starts. In the winter (day 2) they still try to harvesting plants that are in 'rot/remove' state (first image). This can be hard because the farmers will remove pest instead of harvest good crops at the last day of autumn.. (second image)

I tried to produce alot of food and that worked with the problem of keeping it stored ofcaurse. I use about 50% of the settlers with a farm skill. So I adjust some new settlers to my needs. I like to play with lesser miners then the game gives because that task seems to have a really high prioritization.  The next images will so my food stockpiles:

Winter year 2:

Winter year 3 (the zones are full):

Winter year 4 (I created a second story in the little mountain close to the fields):

Winter year 5:

Winter year 6 (added zones between the 2 kitchens and already had zones close to the second kitchen in year 4, close to the second farming area on the right side in the forest):

Now I will list some things that seems strange

• "Crafts items.." will not go away untill a reboot. I don't know who to reporduce but I have seen it more then once
  
• Dwarfs will go to the river to drink water even in there is water in the feasting hall. I seems it will pick the closed water source in bird view and not walking distance..
• With more Dwafs it happens more that they get on the same spot, start walking slowly and do so for a long time, until they are in the feasting hall for example, there is a lot of space to take an other path, or just wait so they can both can walk faster.. In year 2/3 it seems odd, but in year 6 it can be like 6/9 dwarfs getting to gather because if you have some walking slow the odd are getting bigger with more settlers that one will catch up.. Note that I am making hallways 2 or 3 wide to minimize this problem.
  
• If you have multiple miners they will mine the same spot. In year 6 I even have seen them mine a mined spot.. So I think there is something with the alocation of the task going wrong:
  
• The resources viewer is realy handy to see the count of the block's and it type. I fount out that it is not working well for the cauldron's somehow they get mixed up:
  
• If you have 2 metalwork's I expect that they do work within one metalwork's but they don't. They can bring a 'bloom' from one to the other at moments you don't want to. As you can see in the next screenshot the settler is extremely tired and even picked up a bloom and is hauling it the the order metalwork's which is a long walk.. Luckily they haven't died on me:
  
• The same problem will heapon with the kitchen and feasting hall if you have 2 of both. I want them to work with the adjacent one and not the one on the order side of the mountain. The hole point is that I want them to spend less time walking around. You can see them walking cauldrons around:
  
  
• It seems that bringing plank's is a low priority task. At least if the planks are not close by. I started with a sawmill next to the river. So after I build my second kitchen/feasting hall I wanted a second row of bedrooms next to it. But the beds where not created. So I removed my sawmill, created one on the right close to the forest and started creating beds somewhere else. That did use up some planks and new one's where created in the new sawmill. Now the planked where in a close-by zone to the beds where made:
  
  
• cauldron allocation seems of if you have multiple metal types of cauldron's. My kitchen in waiting for 4 silver cauldron but there are iron and bronze cauldron's available in the resource zone next to it:
  

This is what I have at the end of year 6 (I will make extra bedroom's in the winter for the newcomers because spring and autumn in farming time):

Final note, I think it I am getting to the maximum side of the settlement. At least now I have used all the content (almost, I haven't make a mushroom farm because I found few) and got to a size where some problems occur:

• If you have more then one metalworks, kitchen and feasting wall the settlers are not working optimal
• Water consumption seems odd. I have seen 3 of 5 water allocated and then some dwarfs drink and the water stays at 5. That seems incorrect but fixes the first point. Because they settlers will try to refill the water barrels a lot, even when on 5 then putting a bucket with water in a resource zone. Then when they want to refill again then don't use the water in the bucket but walk with it to the river to refill. It would be nice if you can build a aqueduct or something to transfer water from the river into the mountain.
• Settlers will try to do the same task at the same time
• When the walk close to each other they are walking slowly, that is fine but they don't try to avoid it so you can get hordes of dwarf walking long distances together.
• Once you have boulders that aren't picked up because of different reasons they will stay in place for the rest of the game.

@Rocket Jump Technology, I am really interested in your next Devlog update. I have you like my posts on your current version and you can use some of the feedback.
Keep up the good work!

Apologies I've only just seen this topic, that's a lot of feedback! Will get back to you when I've digested it all

Phew a lot to get through here! Thanks to Bofferbrauer to answering where possible:

First thing that I encounter is that the save game is not valid anymore, sounds reasonable.

Yep, it tries to be clever about it. If the save includes anything which isn't in the current version of the game, either because it was removed or renamed, it won't be compatible, but other than that saves should be compatible with older versions. When the game is closer to release I'll put more time into making sure saves are compatible.

The first thing I noticed is the resource and settlers tab, great.  The one thing I miss is to prioritize things.

A priority system is one of the biggest requests so I'll be working on this (for alpha 4) after the current update (for alpha 3).

At the start you get Iron plates, I haven't seen that before. What is the 'normal' purpose?

Just a new type of item/resource for more complex constructions.

Dwarfs carrying a rock walking in some circles in the resource zone before bringing the rock to the stonemason. ... Note: I was running on full speed

This is a bug with the pathfinding at faster speeds, I'll have to either come up with a solution to it or reduce the maximum speed. Obviously the former is much more preferable!

Order a door to be build on a spot with a rock on it is valid. But when the stones for the door arrive and the rock is not picked up yet the dwarf will return to the resource zone with the stone. ... I suggest a easy fast fix to not allow the build because the space is not empty.

Weird as that's how it's supposed to work already - there's a progress state to constructions and if there's anything blocking the tile, they should be removed before any new materials are brought. Let me know if this happens again and I'll see if I can recreate it.

My miners do not mine any more (still year one), see screenshot. For days the miners do not mine even when Idle.

From looking at your save I think this is because the mining pickaxes got stuck on "assigned". My current piece of work is to try and fix this.

The bedroom comfortable size has increased from 12 to 13 spaces, why? I like some symmetry so 15 or 16 spaces will be optimal then.

I did this just to mess with people like you and me that like it to be symmetrical :) I'll have to remember to make sure this is moddable in case it really bothers people.

What was the max room-size in the mountain again, like then to use pillars?

A mined-out area of 7x7 tiles with no walls or pillars will eventually collapse.

How to cancel more then one ordered wall builds? I tried a outside building but found out that the space was to small. I had to cancel each space at a time, that seems wrong.

This is an issue which needs improving. Some kind of UI tool to mass-deconstruct things. It's on the backlog to go with constructing outdoor rooms.

What is the purpose of the Earthworks?

At the moment it is just an outdoor-only type of area for the charcoal clamp to be built in. The name is a bit unusual and could do with improving.

Is it possible to add the feature for exclude or include resources in a resource zone

Yep this is also coming in the near future!

The new settlers don't chop/mine..

Were they assigned to these jobs when they arrived? If not, it's due to a lack of tools which I need to make clearer. Some of the points here and elsewhere are convincing me to put in a tutorial sooner rather than later.

I saw that I have some fishing rods. How can I use them?

Fishing is not implemented yet but some of the items are still in the game, similar to hops/barley for brewing which is also not implemented yet.

Gunborg Ironbeard one of the first 2 miners stopped mining. I can't fix it.

Hopefully this is also because of the assignments bug that I'm currently working on.

I don't know how to create a bronze anvil?

You need a forge to create an anvil, but creating a forge requires an anvil. Your settlers start with one anvil so don't lose it! :)

the blacksmith. This building has a bug, the placeholder is not replaced with the correct value

Thank you for pointing that out, wish I had seen this thread earlier and I would have fixed it sooner!

When you make an order to build something and you cancel it because it is the wrong thing, wrong type of stone or something the cancellation is not correct. It seems as the building is still on the stack/queue so the parts will still be delivered.

Thanks, that's something I need to look at.

One more assigned bug, I made a new resource zone close to the mountain I started making rooms. But then I didn't want them because I wanted the boulders close to the masonry workshop. So I removed the resource zone. As you can see in the next image the boulder assigned to the removed zone will not get a new assignment, event after reboots and days of game time. 

Sounds like the assignment bug again, here's hoping I can find out what's causing it.

Chairs seems always before the dwarfs, I thing it is niceer to do it on the chair position, so the upper one is wrong the lower one is correct

Down-facing chairs are set a bit higher up in the world and up-facing chairs lower so this is supposed to be what happens, but it doesn't always work quite right. I think there's a small change that can be done to make it work a bit better.

My tomato's where harvest in 2d day of winter, or not. Because it didn't work or they are lost, they are gone, I didn't get the tomato's or seeds.. To bad..

It is a case of "too bad" at the moment, sorry :)

In the winter (day 2) they still try to harvesting plants that are in 'rot/remove' state (first image). This can be hard because the farmers will remove pest instead of harvest good crops at the last day of autumn

I'll need to make sure that harvest jobs are higher priority by default.

I tried to produce alot of food and that worked with the problem of keeping it stored ofcaurse. I use about 50% of the settlers with a farm skill. 

It probably needs changing then as 50% of settlers farming is higher than what I want it to be.

"Crafts items.." will not go away untill a reboot. I don't know who to reporduce but I have seen it more then once

There's an issue with the tooltip display. I need to figure out how to reproduce it myself to fix it. The tooltips also don't always show up when they're supposed to too.

Dwarfs will go to the river to drink water even in there is water in the feasting hall. I seems it will pick the closed water source in bird view and not walking distance..

Yes to avoid pathfinding from every dwarf to every water source they use "as the crow flies" distance for the nearest water source. I could make it so they always prefer a barrel over the river even if its further away?

With more Dwafs it happens more that they get on the same spot, start walking slowly and do so for a long time, until they are in the feasting hall for example, there is a lot of space to take an other path, or just wait so they can both can walk faster..

Thanks for pointing this out, I'm going to do something to improve this.

If you have multiple miners they will mine the same spot. In year 6 I even have seen them mine a mined spot.. So I think there is something with the alocation of the task going wrong:

Definitely seems like something is going wrong. If you see this happening please send me a save at that point in time and I should be able to fix it.

The resources viewer is realy handy to see the count of the block's and it type. I fount out that it is not working well for the cauldron's somehow they get mixed up:

Thanks! Didn't know that the cauldron wasn't working right but I think I know why, I'm going to fix this for the next update.

If you have 2 metalwork's I expect that they do work within one metalwork's but they don't. They can bring a 'bloom' from one to the other at moments you don't want to. 

Great suggestion! I'm going to change it to work this way. It should have been obvious but I haven't played with complex settlements enough :) 

It seems that bringing plank's is a low priority task.

Hmm, almost everything is about the same priority right now. Perhaps they were further away than everything else? I'll look into it.

My kitchen in waiting for 4 silver cauldron but there are iron and bronze cauldron's available in the resource zone next to it:

Thanks, this is a bug I'll look to fix too, I thought I had already fixed this one...

Water consumption seems odd.

Similar to the item assignments, I think there's a problem with water assignments too which I'm looking to fix.

 It would be nice if you can build a aqueduct or something to transfer water from the river into the mountain.

Yep that's the plan! Underground pipes to move water around rather than having to do it by hand.

Settlers will try to do the same task at the same time

That shouldn't happen, is this just the miners mining the same tile or are there others like this?

Thanks again for taking the time to go through all this and sending me those useful saves, it really helps!